NOIDA: A three-member cabinet committee of ministers formed to look into homebuyers’ problems made it clear to developers of 17 projects across the twin cities on Thursday to ensure delivery of 50,000 flats to investors by December 12 “at any cost”. Of these, 20,000 flats will be handed over within one-and-a-half months, officials said.

December 12 was the three-month deadline fixed last month by the ministerial committee for the delivery of 50,000 flats to homebuyers, following Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s instructions.

Addressing mediapersons after a meeting with builders, homebuyers and top administrators from Noida and Greater Noida in Delhi, committee member Suresh Khanna, who is UP’s urban housing and development minister, said the developers have already identified some 20,000 flats which would to be delivered soon to their owners.

“These flats are on the verge of completion and can be handed over to the homebuyers within a month-and-a-half. The builders have also been asked to deliver 50,000 flats by December 12 at any cost,” a senior official, who attended the meeting, told TOI.

Stating that over 3,700 flats have already been delivered by the builders from the day of the formation of the committee, Khanna said the builders have assured them that they have moved forward on their promise and many of them have either applied for a completion certificate or will apply for the same in the coming days.

“It was decided in September that 50,000 flats will be delivered within three months. On Thursday, we had an exercise on the same target like which builder will give how many flats to buyers in how much time. We took the numbers of flats to be delivered by all the builders in three months,” the minister said.

When asked about the Amrapali group which has to deliver the maximum number of flats, including around 32,000 in Greater Noida and around 25,000 in Noida, he said that it was a “separate issue” and did not make any promise.

“CREDAI has promised to create a fund for the group as a co-developer to help deliver flats. The legal formalities to be done for making CREDAI a co-developer are under process and as soon as it is done, we don’t think, there will be a problem in that,” Khanna said.

However, the Greater Noida Authority has to appoint a consultant for the audit of the group’s accounts, after which it has to be decided whether it needs a co-developer. An official of GNIDA said the tender process for the appointment of the consultant to carry out the audit of the builders, including Amrapali, has started and the process will be completed by October 9. However, the audit will take anywhere between 45 and 60 days.

“It is only after the audit that a decision will be taken on whether CREDAI will be appointed as the co-developer. It is a long process,” the official said.